A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, w…
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A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.
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A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hy…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radic…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a hydrocarbon containing one or more benzene rings that are characteristic of the benzene series of compounds
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.A body or compound which is isomeric with another body or compound; a member of an isomeric series.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.One of a large class of organic substances resembling the aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic acids an…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by ch…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry.any of a group of isomers in which atoms are linked in the same order but differ in their spatial arrangement.; "A configurational ste…
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A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with gu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of bo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystallizable, tasteless, substance, extracted, carrot.an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
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